Hey guys,
I’ve been spamming the blizzard spell for god knows how long everywhere I go… grinding money for mount? Blizzard. Dungeons? Blizzard. Getting ganked while aoe leveling? I’m probably casting blizzard.
Now I love blizzard as much as the next guy but I’m starting to grow very very bored and am wondering how viable it is to run a Pyro mage or single target heavy frost mage in the 40-60 bracket? I’m unsure if the window of non optimal is closing for me now that I’m reaching the higher brackets. Thanks for any input.
Mages are op at everything.
Fire mage not viable rn. Go frost and spam frostbolt.
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Are you seriously asking if you can get from 40-60 casting something other than Blizzard?
Not only can you, but you won’t be a horrible mage just casting Blizzard all the time!
Frost is usually more popular due to mama efficiency and survivability, but fire (outside of fire immune mobs) actually does more damage.
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I’m mainly referring to end game raiding and dungeons I doubt anybody wants a mage spamming frost bolt or Pyroblast over blizzard and it sucks
You won’t be casting blizzard much in molten core, a few imp packs, a few core hound packs, that’s it. A few whelp packs on Onyxia maybe
I would switch to single target spec at 60 but after you’re done grinding dungeons and quests, when you’re sitting in ironforge waiting for the next week’s raid
I’m a frostbolt mage. I love it. It’s so fun I can puke. I’m serious. I think Blizzard is boring.
I’m still not convinced this isn’t a troll post, but whatever…
Dungeons you’ll do the most damage as fire, assuming you aren’t aoe grinding Scholo/Stray/UBRS (you probably won’t be), but frost will still be perfectly viable.
For MC if you are fire will be times you’ll just be casting Frostbolt anyway, so might as well go Frost.
If you don’t enjoy spell cleave groups and aoe grinding, then don’t do it. Any half decent mage burning single targets in kill order well be a positive addition to a group.
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I’m not trolling I just never did the classic dungeons/raids so I wasn’t sure if it was aoeville like retail dungeons or not
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I have been fire all the way, don’t use Pyro, usually do the most damage in groups, had my 40 mount the moment I leveled, had my epic mount before anyone that I even saw on my server and have hundreds of gold left over.
All the while doing single target dmg.
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Frost is a fun spec… great survivability and damage. Man those shatter procs!!!
I started the onyxia chain last night… and soloe’d all the 52-54 elite dragonkin with ease… most of the time I didn’t even take damage.
Instead of casting Blizzard in dungeons start of with a polymorph on something other than the kill target then spam Frostbolt on it.
Your dungeons will go smoother. Especially the higher level you get.
Top single target dps is arcane power/frost channeling build. Thats what youre supposed to raid as.
Absolutely. Plus tanks like mages that can actually focus on their target not just try to frost nova cone of cold everything
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Just go fire mage. You don’t have to follow the meta. I’m bear tanking right now and I swear those so called warriors have nothing on me.
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All specs are viable to lvl go fire or arcane i u like.
When should I be looking to transition over to that then? And should I just ignore frostbite since it might disrupt aoe of others
jeez. best pvpers, best dps, superb utility, best mobility, best levelers, flexible damage types and best CC. why even have other classes when mages exist
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Tell me how you 1v1 in pvp using only blizzard. I always level single target frost so that i’m still an unmitigated cannon when i blow my CDs, and since i quest, my leveling is still very quick. I also don’t make a large amount of corpse runs
I would say when youre 100% done with solo questing and farming and are pr much only logging in to raid. It’s good for 5 mans and ubrs but it’s not ideal for solo stuff/pvp.